FROM CARD: "23383-6. TRIMMED WITH FUR OF SEA OTTER. 23384-- [negative number] 77-447."Long bark cape with fur trim.

FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BONE CARVING.---REPRESENTS A WOMAN WRAPPED IN BLANKET; HAS LABRET. HAIDAH INDIANS. QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 23,411. COLLECTED BY J. G. SWAN."

FROM CARD: "USED FOR FOOD BY THE MAKAH INDS. ."

From card: "Illus. in USNM AR, 1888; Pl. 43, fig. 242; p. 318. Carved and painted wooden box." From old 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with the card: "Cedar Box - Carved with totemic design of "Hoots" [a.k.a. Hoorts], the bear. The lid is made of a slab of wood beveled on the under side to fit over the box. The sides are made of two pieces, one being the end, and the other a single piece bent twice at right angles to form the two sides and the other end. There is very little appearance of breaking at the two corners. The joints at the other corners are pegged together. The bottom is made of a separate piece of wood; so that altogether there are four pieces of wood used in its construction. Besides being used for household purposes, it is used among the Tlinkits [Tlingit] as a depository for the ashes of the dead. Haida Indians (Skittagetan stock), Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. Collected by James G. Swan." Paint colors: black, red, blue.

From card: "Head, arms, and lower legs of wood, carved and painted red and white, lower legs attached to body by buckskin. Hair fastened to skin on the back of the mask-like face. "carved dancing figure or skeleton of the Oolalla or wood demon. worn on the head and rigged with string to move the legs and arms, very rare and obtained with difficulty." Swan's descriptive catalogue. "... taken apart after the ceremonies are over and not refitted till another performance when they are refitted and painted." See accession records for additional data. Refer To: "Boas, F.: Social Organization and Secret Society of the Kwakiutl Indians, USNM A.R. 1895, fig. 201 (p. 651), p. 653. LaFarge, O.: Pictorial History of the Amer. Indian, 1956, Ill. p. 211. Loan: R. H. Lowie Museum 12/31/64, loan returned Feb 15, 1966. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 12a, pg. 250." Identified in Handbook caption as "Ulala carved wooden dancing figure, red and white, part of a headdress that represents the canibal spirit (Caamano 1938:292)." Illustrated: USNM Annual Report for 1895, Fig. 201, p. 651, identified there as "Headdress of Olala." On p. 653 of this publication it is noted about 89038, 89039, 89072 and 89073: "In his dances the olala of all the northern tribes use headdresses which represent a corpse...."

From card: "Illus. in The Far North catalog, Nat. Gall. of Art, 1973, p. 173. [Illus.] page 34, Boxes and Bowls catalogue; Renwick Gallery; Smithsonian Institution Press; 1974. Object illus. on same page.[Book caption:] Animal-form bowl. Wood; carved in relief. Length: 13 3/4 [inches]. [Haida], Massett, British Columbia. ..."This has been identified as a seal-form bowl or dish.

FROM CARD: "50 CTS. ."